Madison's Capital Times to add Monday business news page
The Capital Times, which is the newspaper in the Wisconsin capital of Madison, announced in the newspaper this morning that it was adding a business page in the Monday paper. The paper said the addition was so that the paper could “provide some of the week’s early news in that area.” Read the entire announcement […]
Update on trial of men who allegedley killed Forbes editor
The latest is that one of the attorneys representing one of the defendants on trial for killing Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov has been accused by the judge in the case of misonduct. An update to the trial can be found here. What I am finding interesting in following the coverage is that the trial is […]
Apple coverage gone soft?
The topic of whether the coverage of Apple Computers being too soft is not a new one. But Arik Hesseldahl, a writer for BusinessWeek Online, is assessing it again in this piece posted this morning. Hesseldahl notes that on Tuesday, AP issued a one sentence NewsAlert about Apple beginning to ship computers with Intel chips […]
Revolutionizing business coverage in Britain
There’s a new newspaper in Britain called City AM for the movers and shakers in the business world, according to this Press Gazette article about editor David Parsley. Parsley is critical of the Financial Times, which is the main financial paper in England and has a strong presence in the United States: “A criticism of […]
A rite of passage at most business sections — and writers
Andrew Cassel, who writes about the economy for the Philadelphia Inquirer, sums up what probably happened on a lot of business desks earlier this week: “We used to have a kind of ritual in the newsroom: Whenever the Dow Jones industrial average hit some number that ended in three zeros, a top editor would emerge […]
Inc. and Fast Company magazines in red ink in 2005
That’s according to an article posted today on the BusinessWeek site by media writer Jon Fine. Here are some snippets: CEO John “Koten’s memo said profitability in 2006 was unlikely, and goals for this year involve halving 2005’s loss and doing that again in 2007. “‘If we can accomplish that…we should have a good shot […]
Press release masquerading as a WSJ story
That’s the conclusion that Fortune senior writer Devin Leonard reached about the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the change in management at parent Dow Jones & Co. last week. “The newspaper read — and feared — by everybody in corporate America published the equivalent of a press release,” wrote Leonard. He added: “Here’s what you […]
Does the news media make economics coverage negative?
That’s the summary of what the Newsbusters blog is saying about Robert Samuelson’s column in this week’s issue of Newsweek. Samuelson’s column is about five things that could go wrong with the economy in 2006, including the potential for GM to file for bankruptcy court protection. He states, “All this good news is, of course, […]
LA Times series on labor causing a lot of talk
The Los Angeles Times this week has been running a series called “UFW: A Broken Promise” on the migrant farm worker population that is so important to California agriculture and the state’s economy. You can read the series here. The day one story has this as its multi-paragraphed nut: “Today, a Times investigation has found, […]
CNNMoney web site is relaunched
I’m going to ignore the press release that Time Inc. and CNN, both pieces of the huge AOL Time Warner media conglomerate, and tell you what I like about the redesigned web site: 1. It has easy access fo the company’s business publications — Fortune, Money, Fortune Small Business and Business 2.0. Previously, if you […]
